A recent Republican-backed change in how the Congressional Budget Office values federal lands has made it easier to pass legislation which would hand off large areas of public land to state and local officials. Utah Representative Jason Chaffetz has introduced HR 621 a bill to sell off federal lands in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming. Chaffetz claims these lands have little value and create great expense for taxpayers, but much of this land is leased to cattle ranchers for grazing and the fossil fuels industry for drilling.

A draft of the bill is available online. Call your representatives to voice your disapproval of this bill.

Ski instructors at the Middlebury College Snow Bowl ski down Worth Mountain holding flares under a night sky to welcome incoming students during February orientation. Available as an archival fine art print, signed, and shipped flat.
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